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The people have more than spoken. From the heart and soul of dependably Demo cratic Massachusetts, a state long saddled with the unfortunate nickname "Taxachusetts," voters have issued a primal scream: Enough! But can President Obama hear? Leaving a press conference on the first day of the rest of his term, the clearly shaken and crippled leader was assaulted with a softball question: "What's the lesson of the Massachusetts vote?" Obama was caught off guard. He had no spin handy that would fail to make him look arrogant -- or loony. So he snubbed the obvious query. And got the...

If knowledge is power, then gossip is powerful currency, traded daily on high school phone lines and at the supermarket check-out lines. "The best piece of gossip always has a little hint of scandal involved," says Paula Froelich, a columnist for the New York Post's "Page Six." "And it's also pretty salacious. And at some point your mouth drops and you go, 'oh no she didn't!'" While Mom always said "No one loves a busybody," some scholars believe gossip is a healthy, essential tool in helping people work together and defining the rules of the tribe. ....

How soon we forget !! The Anthrax murders of 2001-believed by many to have been a "second wave" accompaniment to the 9/11 outrages - spurred renewed interest in-and funding for-bioterror detection and prevention. A group of US scientists-apparently miffed because their pet projects have not received as much attention (although funding has not diminished-is pitching a national hissy fit. "How dare the government attempt to protect us against the horrors of biowar when we are working on important stuff -like dandruff,and athlete's foot,and,and...."

Dear Mr. McAuliffe: I am writing to request your immediate resignation as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Under your leadership the Democratic Party has lost its direction, no longer knows what it stands for and as a result is losing to many of the most extreme Republican candidates in history. You have taken the Democratic base for granted and as a result are losing support among Americans who should be supporting an alternative to the Republican Party, e.g., according to CNN exit polls 38% of union members voted for Bush as did 40% of those with union members in...

Davis insists Demos united He plays down calls for Feinstein candidacy in recall Carla Marinucci and Mark Simon, Chronicle Political Writers Thursday, July 31, 2003 URL: http://sfchronicle.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/07/31/RECALL.TMP Gov. Gray Davis insisted Wednesday that "no prominent Democrats" will become candidates in the Oct. 7 recall election and that his party remains united behind him, even as another Democratic House member joined those urging Sen. Dianne Feinstein to enter the campaign. "I am very proud of all the Democrats that have stood by my side," he told reporters at a women's shelter in San Francisco's Chinatown, where he appeared to mark the...